Bin dug noisy records. Does it diminish your enjoyment?


I have some original pressed (or at least very old) LPs bought used at Half price books, and record stores, and not at Collector prices, as such there is on some a bit of popping and noise, and one or two that were just trash.
So I ask, when you pick up a $5 ish record that plays with some well earned noise but is playable, does that take away from your enjoyment knowing it is and old war horse?
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I’ll never understand why some pops and clicks or whatever would bother someone so much....to be honest, even my so called bin dug lp’s sound rather nice. It is the quality of the recording that matters most to me, despite a few imperfections of noise.
The record dr is used when needed, but I mostly clean manually with Vinyl Revival, a UK product. It works well on most records. For a touch up, I use my old standby discwasher d4, the original one with red fluid bottles. I have managed to amass quite a few unopened d4 kits via ebay over the years.
As Tom Port says, the quietest records are not always the best sounding....